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title: British interests in Aden began in 1796 with Napoleon's invasion of… — Aden · tree and pragmatics
description: British interests in Aden began in 1796 with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, after which a British fleet docked at Aden for several months at the invitation of the sultan. Who acts: British interests, British fleet, Napoleon. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Aden» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Aden, sentence 106

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From Wikipedia, [«Aden»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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British interests in Aden began in 1796 with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, after which a British fleet docked at Aden for several months at the invitation of the sultan.

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**Who acts:** British interests, British fleet, Napoleon · **What happens:** begin, dock, invade, invite · **To what, where:** 1796, Aden, Egypt, sultan

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Aden». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British interests, British fleet, Napoleon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Aden:106
# text = British interests in Aden began in 1796 with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, after which a British fleet docked at Aden for several months at the invitation of the sultan.
1	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1796	1796	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	docked	dock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Aden	Aden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | British interests in Aden |  |  | 1796 |  | with Napoleon's invasion of Egypt | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with invasion=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **dock** | participle | a British fleet |  |  | Aden | month | at the invitation of the sultan; which *obl* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **invade** |  | Napoleon | Egypt |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 4 | **invite** |  |  | the sultan |  |  |  |  | nom invitation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Aden», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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